<p>No, I mean in a good way. I mean that it will decrease admissions rate with some confidence that the yield will stay the same or get better, and with some confidence that the students remain the same or get better. I will admit that this year’s applications skyrocketed at Vandy, however, in other years, I think they legit accepted less students than the year before to push admissions rate down (I don’t know if that was their exact intent, but it was the result nonetheless). They did so successfully. I believe that when you accept less students (not merely in terms of percentage), that you are taking a risk with the yield. Unless you have many ED applicants, you cannot know for sure. Emory hardly ever does this. In fact for class of 2014, if it had not decided to admit slightly more people than in class of 2013, it may be possible that the 25th percentile would not be in the 12s (a high 12, but a 12 nonetheless). We’ll never know. I don’t think Emory is at that confidence level yet. However, it should realize that it yields about 30-31% (in fact it may be increasing a little. Each freshman class is getting larger despite declines in the applications) even when there is a decline in admissions. The student body doesn’t change that drastically in such cases in terms of the stats. Eventually, it should be able to play around with the admissions rate a little. However, right now Emory should probably work on boosting applications close to class of 2012 levels. Look at our website and you’ll see the headline about the ranking that never actually states the rank given to the university, but states a bunch of other ones (probably in denial at this point). Somebody will soon probably hold the administration/admissions accountable for the drop. It happened my freshman year when we dropped to 18. But anyway, me and some other students saw it coming.</p>
<p>I also wouldn’t really ever expect Emory to reach the 40s (it’ll probably never really get higher into the 30s) in terms of yield anywhere in the near future, as it has a lack of D1 sports and large recreational venues and events that perhaps garner some school spirit. Unfortunately most of our peers have this, at least those in the immediate vicinity in terms of rank. Also many stereotypes are associated with us that would deter some types of students and demographics from even considering attending the school if admitted. This is probably why we lose cross-admit battles to Vandy. Not to mention that because of this we hardly draw many “typical” high-performing southerners like Vandy. That’s basically one less demographic that we can market to. It seems only Duke can attract everyone. It’s a solid school admittedly, but so are the rest of us. I’d imagine the research endeavors helped them out a lot, and the success of the athletics too. And being rewarded by being put in the top 10 isn’t bad either.</p>